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Teresa Giovannini

Partner

Geneva:
35, Rue de la Mairie
PO Box 6569
1211 Geneva 6
Switzerland
Contact:
tgiovannini@lalive.ch
Phone: +41 22 319 87 00
Fax: +41 22 319 87 60
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Admission

Geneva, 1983
Nationality

Swiss
Languages

French
English, Italian, German
  Areas of practice

Teresa Giovannini is a founding partner of LALIVE (1994) specializing in international arbitration and litigation, as well as art law. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 150 international arbitrations, either ad hoc or administered by various institutions (AAA/ICDR, ICC, ICHEIC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC, UNCITRAL, Chamber of Commerce of Milan, Chamber of Commerce of Venice and Swiss Chambers). Her areas of specialization include disputes relating to procurement contracts, sales, license, agency, joint venture and shareholder agreements in a wide range of sectors, in particular infrastructure projects, aviation, transfer of technology, construction of turnkey factories, pharmaceuticals, insurance, luxury goods and arts.

 

Teresa Giovannini is a member of several panels of arbitrators, including the ICC Swiss National Committee, the panels of the ICDR, the Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), the CIETAC, the CRCICA, the DIAC, the ICHEIC and the LCIA. Since 2012 she has been included on the ICOM-WIPO List of Mediators with specific expertise in art and cultural heritage. Teresa Giovannini was a member and vice-president of the LCIA Court from 2006 until 2011. She is currently a member of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, the International Law Association Committee on Arbitration (Swiss Member), the IBA Sub-Committee on Conflicts of Interest, the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, the Advisory Board of the Transnational Arbitration Association, the LCIA Company and the Club of Arbitrators of the Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration. In addition, she is a member of many other professional associations, including ASA (Swiss Arbitration Association), the Swiss Society of International Law, the Swiss Society of Jurists, the Comité français de l'arbitrage, the International Arbitration Institute, the International Arbitration Club, and the International Bar Association (Arbitration and Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committees).

 

Teresa Giovannini is also a frequent speaker at international conferences on international arbitration as well as the author of many publications in the field of international law and arbitration.  She has been ranked for many years by Chambers Europe and Chambers Global for Dispute resolution - Arbitrators for Switzerland, as well as in the International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration.

 

Before joining Lalive Budin & Partners in 1985, Teresa Giovannini trained in Rome (Chiomenti & Partners, 1983-1985) and in Geneva (Turrettini & L'Huillier, 1981-1983), after having worked as a legal counsel in Geneva (University Hospital, 1977-1981) and in Freiburg (Public Health Department of the Cantonal Government). She graduated from the University of Freiburg in Switzerland and studied at The Hague Academy of International Law (1974).

  • Philosophy Can Help Tribunals Draft Awards that Parties Will Accept as Legitimate
    Teresa Giovannini, 2011

    Dispute Resolution Journal, May-July 2011, pp. 78-79 and 90

  • L’assistenza giudiziaria nell’assunzione della prova in arbitrato internazionale : un’analisi comparativa dei sistemi svizzero, francese e inglese
    Teresa Giovannini, Valentina Renna, 2011

    In: Lapis Ed., La prova nell'arbitrato internazionale, Quaderni dell'Arbitrato, ISSA, 2011, pp.147-183

  • When do arbitrators become functus officio?
    Teresa Giovannini, 2011

    In: Liber Amicorum, Mélanges en l'honneur de Serge Lazareff, Ed. Pedone, Paris 2011, pp. 305-314

  • The Italian experience of arbitration and the arbitration rules of the Chamber of arbitration of Milan: a parallel view
    Teresa Giovannini, Valentina Renna, 2010

    Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration (2010) 14, pp. 297-313

  • Book review: L’arbitrato nel commercio e negli investimenti internazionali, Piero Bernardini, Giuffré Editore 2008, 2nd ed.
    Teresa Giovannini, Valentina Renna, 2010

    ICSID Review, Foreign Investment Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 2010, pp. 498-503

  • International arbitration and jura novit curia – Towards harmonization
    Teresa Giovannini, 2010

    In: Liber Amicorum Bernardo Cremades, La Ley (Ed.), pp. 495-509

  • The continental European perspective and practice of advocacy
    Teresa Giovannini, 2010

    In: R. Doak Bishop/E. G. Kehoe (Eds.), The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration, Part VI: Regional Differences in International Arbitration, Chapter 21, "The Continental European Perspective and Practice of Advocacy", 2nd Ed., Juris Publishing, May 2010

  • Written evidence and discovery in international arbitration - new issues and tendencies
    Teresa Giovannini, Alexis Mourre, 2009

    Dossiers (VI) Institute of World Business Law, ICC Publication No. 698, 2009

  • Final arbitral award rendered in SCC case 090/2004 in 2006 1. Truncated tribunal 2. Interpretation of an international purchase agreement under the CIGS
    Teresa Giovannini, 2008

    Stockholm International Arbitration Review, 2007, Vol. 2, pp. 211

  • Raubkunst und die Schweiz: Aufarbeitung, Regelung, Ausblick
    Teresa Giovannini, Marc-André Renold, Carolyn Olsburgh, Friederike Ringe, 2006

    In: Sapper/Von Selle/Weichsel (Eds.), Kunst im Konflikt: Kriegsfolgen und Kooperationsfelder in Europa, Berlin, Deutscher Verlag, Osteuropa, 2006, pp. 341-353

  • Anti-arbitration and anti-suit injunctions in international arbitration
    Matthias Scherer, Teresa Giovannini, 2005

    Stockholm International Arbitration Review, 2005, Vol. 1, pp. 201-218

  • Qui contrôle les pouvoirs des arbitres : les parties, l'arbitre ou la Cour d'arbitrage ?
    Teresa Giovannini, 2005

    In: Rosell (Ed.), Les arbitres internationaux, Colloque du 4 février 2005, Société de législation comparée, Paris, 2005, Vol. 8, pp. 135-144

  • Le nouveau Règlement d'Arbitrage de la Chambre Arbitrale Nationale et Internationale de Milan
    Teresa Giovannini, Sali Rinaldo, 2004

    ASA Bull. 2/2004, Vol. 22, pp. 284-297

  • Le nouveau Règlement Suisse d'Arbitrage International
    Teresa Giovannini, 2004

    Les Cahiers de l'Arbitrage, 2004, Vol. 124, pp. 25-30

  • Resolution of cultural property disputes
    Teresa Giovannini, 2004

    The Permanent Court of Arbitration/Peace Palace Papers, 2004, Vol. 7, pp. 339-348

  • The psychological aspects of dispute resolution: commentary
    Teresa Giovannini, 2003

    In: Van den Berg (Ed.), International Commercial Arbitration: Important Contemporary Questions, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2003, pp. 348-352

  • Arbitres et institutions d'arbitrage : conflits d'intérêt
    Teresa Giovannini, 2002

    Revue du Droit des Affaires internationales, 2002, No. 6, pp. 629-641

  • The holocaust and looted art
    Teresa Giovannini, 2002

    Art Antiquity and Law, 2002, Vol. 7, pp. 263-280

  • What are the grounds on which awards are most often set aside?
    Teresa Giovannini, 2001

    International Bar Association Review (Section on Business Law), January 2001, No. 1, pp. 115-127

  • Arbitration act 1996, stay of proceedings
    Teresa Giovannini, 2000

    The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Journal, 2000, Vol. 66, pp. 203-206

  • Corporate governance: Swiss present situation and perspectives
    Teresa Giovannini, 1999

    The International Legal Forum, IPR Verlag, 1999, No. 3-4, pp. 137-146

Selection of recent conferences (for a complete list, please contact Teresa Giovannini):

Juris Conference LLC
Ninth Annual Leading Arbitrators’ Symposium on the Conduct of International Arbitration
Vienna, 25 March 2013
Panelist: “ Effective and Efficient Management proceedings – Including the preparation of Awards by Arbitrators”

For more information, see the programme.

Columbia Law School and the Columbia International Arbitration Association
Columbia Arbitration Day – Remedies and Enforcement in International Arbitration
New York, 8 March 2013
Speaker: “Non-Monetary Relief in International Commercial Arbitration: Sources of the Tribunal’s power, Applicable Law, Types, Enforcement”

For more information, see the programme.

ICC Institute of World Business Law-Advanced PIDA Training
Paris, 3-6 December 2012
Speaker: “Production of documents: written evidence in international arbitration”

Associazione italiana per l’Arbitrato (AIA)-Rivista dell’Arbitrato
L’ausilio giudiziario all’Arbitrato: tra sostegno, controllo e interferenza
Rome, 3 December 2012
Speaker: “L’ausilio istruttorio: l’assunzione delle prove”

LCIA-London Court of International Arbitration
European Users’ Council Symposium
Tylney Hall, United Kingdom, 14-15 September 2012
Moderator

Institute for Transnational Arbitration – The Center for American and International Law
24th Annual ITA Workshop – The Final Curtain: Post-Hearing Submissions, Deliberations and Enforcement
Dallas, 21 June 2012
Faculty Member

ICC Institute Masterclass for Arbitrators
“Overview of fundamentals and best practices related to serving as an arbitrator”
Paris, 4-6 June 2012
Speaker: Arbitrator immunity

Milan Chamber of Arbitration
LA CROSS EXAMINATION IN ARBITRATO
Milan and Rome, 15-16 May 2012
Speaker: L’assunzione della prova testimoniale - Dopo l’udienza

British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
Fifteen Annual Review of the Arbitration Act 1996: Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements and Awards-Harmonization or Divergence?
London, 19 April 2012
Speaker: A view from the outside on anti-arbitration injunctions – compared practices.

Juris Conference LLC
Eighth Annual Leading Arbitrators’ Symposium on the Conduct of International Arbitration
Vienna, 2 April 2012
Panelist: “Effective and Efficient Management proceedings”

1st Annual ITA Winter Forum
1st Winter Roundtable on the Fundamentals of International Arbitration
San Francisco, 2-3 February 2012
Co-Moderator

CPR 2012 Annual Meeting
Developments in International Dispute Resolution
New York, 12-13 January 2012
Speaker

University of Geneva, Faculty of Law, Geneva Art-Law Centre
International symposium: “Litigation in cultural property: judicial and alternative means of international dispute resolution”
Geneva, 11 November 2011
Speaker: The practice of arbitration in cultural property matters.

International Bar Association (IBA)
Annual Conference
Dubai 2 November 2011
Panelist: Arbitration Committee: Winning damages and other remedies in international arbitration

AAA and ICDR
International Symposia in Advanced Case Management Issues
Dubai, 1 November 2011
Faculty member

Chinese European Arbitration Centre (CEAC)/ Chinese European Legal Association (CELA)
Dubai, 31 October 2011
Speaker: Equality and Neutrality in CEAC

ICC Seminar on Arbitration and Mediation
Doha (Qatar), 30 October 2011
Speaker: Introducing Arbitration and Mediation

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
The Costs of International Arbitration Conference
London, 27- 28 September 2011
Speaker/Moderator: Comments on Current Problems- International Users (Arbitrator’s perspective)

For more information, see the programme.

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (International Arbitration)
Oxford, St. Anne’s College, 10-18 September 2011
Lecturer

Milan Chamber of Arbitration
Journée d’étude en l’honneur de Giorgio Schiavoni :
Milan, 27 June 2011
Speaker: Devono le istituzioni arbitrali avere una pubblica funzione?

For more information, see the programme.

Institute of Energy Law (IEL)- International Bar Association Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL)
3rd International Oil and Gas Law Conference
London, 26-28 June 2011
Panelist: Recent Reforms in International Arbitration

For more information, see the programme.

Institute for Transnational Arbitration – The Center for American and International Law
22nd Annual ITA Workshop – The Merits Hearing: Getting the Message to the Tribunal
Dallas, 16 June 2011
Faculty Member

Juris Conference LLC
Take the Witness: Cross-Examination in International Arbitration
The Harvard Club, New York, 14 June 2011
Panelist

International Bar Association
14th Annual IBA International Arbitration Day
Seoul, 3-4 March 2011
Panelist: Ex officio powers to investigate the facts: when do arbitrators cross the line?

Milan Chamber of Arbitration and the International Bar Association
Arbitration and the Courts: A Euro-Mediterranean Perspective
Milan, 19 November 2010
Speaker: Liability of arbitral institutions

AAA and ICDR
International Symposia in Advanced Case Management Issues
Paris, 16 November 2010
Faculty: Managing the ICDR Guidelines on Information Exchange

International Bar Association (IBA)
Annual Conference
Vancouver, 3-8 October 2010
Speaker: Arbitration Committee: Deliberations and duty of impartiality

TerraLex
TerraLex 2010 Annual General Meeting
Washington DC, 2 October 2010
Speaker: Disclosure of evidence in international arbitration: the civil law approach

Georgetown Law CLE and West LegalEdcenter
International Arbitration and Finality of Awards – A tour d’Horizon
Washington DC, 28 September 2010
Speaker: When do arbitrators lose their power to decide (or become functus officio)? Is there international consensus?

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (International Arbitration)
Oxford, 11-19 September 2010
Lecturer

Institute for Transnational Arbitration – The Center for American and International Law
21st Annual ITA Workshop – Commencing an International Commercial Arbitration: Fundamentals and Strategy
Dallas, 17 June 2010
Faculty member

Camera Arbitrale di Milano – Camera di Commercio di Milano
Il Nuovo Regolamento Arbitrale
Milan, 14 June 2010
Speaker: "I poteri degli arbitri nella conduzione del procedimento”

ICC - I.S.S.A. (Istituto Superiore di Studi sull'Arbitrato)
The Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration
Rome, 5 February 2010
Speaker: The assistance of judicial authorities in the taking of evidence

LCIA - London Court of International Arbitration
European Users’ Council Symposium
The Grove (United Kingdom), 11-12 September 2009
Co-Chair

ICC London
Annual arbitration practitioner's symposium
London, 9 July 2009
Speaker: Disclosure: different approaches to the same issue

Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) / Houston International Arbitration Club / University of Texas School of Law
Weighing the facts, information exchange and presentation of evidence in international commercial and investment arbitration
The Hague, 14-15 May 2009
Speaker: Privilege and ethical obligations involving production and protection of evidence

Practising Law Institute (PLI)
Web Programme International Arbitration 2009
New York, 24 March 2009
Speaker: The international arbitrator’s point of view?

For more information, see the programme.

AAA and ICDR
Neutrals Conference and International Symposia in Advanced Case Management Issues
San Diego, 27-28 February 2009
Speaker: Managing the ICDR Guidelines on Information Exchange

ICC Institute of World Business Law
Written Evidence and Discovery in International Arbitration: New Issues and Tendencies
Paris, 24 November 2008
Co-chair

International Bar Association (IBA)
2008 Annual conference
Buenos Aires, 12-17 October 2008
Panellist: Buying art – the worldwide market (Committee on Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law)

ITA-CBAR
4th Annual ITA Americas Workshop: Insider Insights in Complex Energy Disputes, Conference on International Arbitration
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 21-23 September 2008
Speaker: Impact of local proceedings

ICCA 2008
Dublin, 7-11 June 2008
Speaker and commentator: rules-based solutions to procedural issues

LCIA - London Court of International Arbitration
European Users’ Council Symposium
Tylney Hall (United Kingdom), 9-11 May 2008
Co-Chair: session on jurisdiction

ICC Institute of World Business Law
Arbitration Day: Hearing and Deliberation
Paris, 8 April 2008
Discussion leader: hearing and deliberation on provisional measures

UIA-LAWASIA
Mediation & Arbitration in International Commercial Disputes
Jaipur, India 8-10 February 2008
Speaker: The Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (the ICSID Convention) and recent developments

ICDR International Symposium
Advanced Case Management
Paris, 15 November 2007
Moderator

International Bar Association
Annual Conference
Singapore, 14-19 October 2007
Speaker: The art of advocacy in arbitration

European Branch of the Chartered Institute of the Arbitrators (CIArb) & SCC Institute
East Meets West in Stockholm
Stockholm, 28-30 September 2007
Speaker: Multiparty arbitration notion - consolidation

For more information, see the programme.

ICC Institute of World Business Law
Institute Specials: Training on International Commercial Arbitration
Paris, 24-25 September 2007
Moderator: Production of documents

Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
18th Annual Workshop: Insider Insights; Complex Energy Disputes
Dallas, 21 June 2007
Speaker: Hearings before the arbitral tribunal: impact of local proceedings

Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, Section for Arbitration and Other Dispute Resolution
Arbitrators: Private Judges, Service Providers or Both?
Stockholm, 10-11 May 2007
Speaker: Relationships between arbitrators and parties: practical problems

International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR/AAA)
Fall 2006 International ADR Program Series
New York, 11 October 2006
Speaker: The Common law/civil law gap: the issues and how international arbitrators may resolve them

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Lebanon and UAE Branches
Entry and Memberships Courses: “The Law, Practice, and Procedure of Arbitration”
Beirut, 25-26 June 2006
Tutor/Speaker: Decision making and the award and the requirements of an award under the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law and the 1958 New York Convention

Camera Arbitrale Nazionale e Internazionale di Milano
Corso di Formazione alla Luce delle Recenti Evoluzioni Normative, Quarta Edizione “L’Arbitrato: Fondamenti e Tecniche - La Decisione del Tribunale Arbitrale. L’Arbitrato Internazionale”
Milan, 23 June 2006
Speaker: Praticare l’arbitrato: raffronto tra i principali regolamenti arbitrali internazionali

International Centre for Dispute Resolution, Young & International (ICDR Y&I)
Anniversary Seminar: Appointing the Arbitrators; Strategic Choices and Considerations for Parties, Arbitrators and Institutions
Vienna, 8 April 2006
Panellist

International Law Association (ILA)
L’indipendenza del giudice e dell’arbitro internazionale
Milan, 10 June 2005
Speaker: L’indipendenza e l’imparzialità dell’arbitrato internazionale

Global Center for Dispute Resolution Research
Annual Research Conference, The Global Center Survey of Leading Practitioners: Implications of the Survey Findings for Practitioners and Their Strategies
New York, 24-25 May 2005
Speaker: Interim measures of protection / Challenges of arbitrators / Jurisdiction

Chartered Institute of Arbitration (CIArb) & Court of Arbitration of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Sofia, Bulgaria, 19-21 May 2005
Tutor / Special Member Course: Swiss Arbitration Rules / International Conventions / Arbitrators: appointment and challenge / Swiss Private International Law Act – Chapter 12 / Law applicable to the arbitration clause and to the merits

Camera di Commercio di Firenze
Corso di formazione: L’arbitrato commerciale internazionale
Florence, 14 April 2005
Speaker: Principi e procedure: l’arbitrato internazionale amministrato: “Le istituzioni arbitrali internazionali: analisi comparativa dei principali regolamenti arbitrali internazionali”

Centre Français de Droit Comparé
Les Droits et les devoirs des arbitres internationaux
Paris, 4 February 2005
Speaker: Qui contrôle les pouvoirs des arbitres : les parties, l’arbitre, ou la Cour d’arbitrage ?

For more information, see the programme.

Institute for Transnational Arbitration and Centre for Mediation and Commercial Arbitration of the National Chamber of Commerce of Mexico City (ITA-Canaco)
Workshop
Mexico City, 24 January 2005
Panellist: The most effective way to present the closing argument

For more information, see the website.